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Budget Hatchet Men
Eye Federal Payroll
By FRANK ELEAZER
WASHINGTON (UPD—Con
gressmen looking for possible
cuts in President Johnson’s
record high $186.1 billion budget
today picked the $25 billion
federal civilian payroll as one
priority target.
Rep. Prank T. Bow, R-Ohio,
chief economy spokesman for
ths GOP in the House, said a
six -we e k -old congressional
directive to trim government
employment appeared to have
been ignored in the new budget.
Rather than reduce payrolls,
Johnson budgeted funds to pay
69,849 more civilians as of June
1968, than were on the payroll
In June 1967. Further, he
proposed to boost employment
another 45,600 by June, 1969—t0
a total of 2,687,500.
City Economy Measure
Bow noted that under an
economy limitation signed into
law Dec. 18 Congress ordered
non-defense agencies to with
hold not less than 2 per cent of
their alloted funds for personnel
and 10 per cent for programs.
He said the planned employ
ment rise by the end of the
current bookkeeping year, plus
the additional payroll increase
proposed for the new fiscal
year, would get close scrutiny
as Congress hunts for places to
cut.
Generally, the President’s
spending plans for the fiscal
year starting July 1 got the
expected congressional reaction.
Republicans agreed the budget
was too big over-all. Key
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Democrats also promised to
help look for ways to reduce it.
As usual, one man’s overdue cut
turned out to be another’s
shortsighted saving.
Education Loses
Rep. Clark MacGregor, R-
Minn., complained that, while
trimming his over-all request
for new appropriations in
education and for combatting
crime, the President had
boosted projected spending for
a supersonic transport plane
(SST) from SIOO million this
year to $351 million next year.
MacGregor, sounding an oft
heard cry, said Johnson had got
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But Rep. L. Mendel Rivers,
D-S.C., chairman of the House
Armed Services Committee,
called development of the 2,000-
mile-an-hour SST “vital to this
country" and praised Johnson
for pushing ahead with the
project.
The House Appropriations
Committee, first testing ground
for this year’s renewed battle of
the budget, set its initial
meeting for Thursday, Feb. 8,
to take testimony from Treasu
ry Secretary Henry H. Fowler
and the new budget director,
Charles J. Zwick.
THE DOCTOR SAYS
Obesity Aggrevates
Heart Disease
By WAYNE G. BRANDSTADT cause, heart disease.
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says that my heart is out of
shape and deflected. Does this
require an operation or medi
cal treatment?
A—ls, as I presume, you
have an enlarged heart, this
may be due to a valvular dis
ease, chronic high blood pres
sure or emphysema. An oper
ation might benefit a valvular
disease, but the other two
conditions lend themselves to
medical treatment.
Q—My husband has hyper
tensive heart disease and I
have mitral heart disease.
Please explain the difference.
Is obesity a cause?
A—Chronic high blood pres
sure causes some enlargement
of the heart because of the
greater effort the heart must
put out to force the blood
through the body. A leaky
mitral value, usually a result
of rheumatic fever, causes en
largement because the heart
must compensate for the back
flow through the Incompetent
value. Obesity puts an added
burden on even a normal heart
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Q—l am 72 and have an en
larged heart. My doctor is giv
ing me Coramine, which helps
me. He stopped the digitalis
because it made me feel weak.
What is Coramine? Is it relat
ed to sal volatile?
A—Coramine is a brand of
nikethamide. It is a valuable
heart stimulant but, because
the margin of safety between
the effective and the poisonous
dose is so small, it must be
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Q —Can a person who has di
abetes, hardening of the arte
ries, high blood pressure and
an enlarged heart safely take
digitalis? What would be the
result of too large a dose?
A—Digitalis is a powerful
drug. It can be a lifesaver in
persons with certain types of
heart disease. It is safe only
when taken under medical su
pervision. The signs of digita
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nausea and drowsiness.
Joint Chiefs Wanted
slOl Billion Budget
By ROBERT J. TAYLOR
WASHINGTON (UPD—Pres
ident Johnson’s decision to
budget $79.8 billion for defense
in fiscal 1969 represents a s2l
billion difference of opinion with
the Pentagon on Vietnam costs
and cold war strategy.
Although the sum decided
upon by Johnson is second only
to the $81.2 billion of 1945 at the
climax of World War n, it still
is less than 80 per cent of the
slOl billion the Joint Chiefs of
Staff wanted.
Johnson’s total, $3.3 billion
above the $76.5 billion of the
current year, is based on
assumptions that the cost of the
Vietnam war has reached a
plateau and that now new
strategic weapons systems will
have to be undertaken in a
hurry.
More For Vietnam
While the specific requests of
the Joint Chiefs have not been
made public, the military has in
the past wanted more money
for Vietnam and strategic
weapons than the White House
has been willing to give them.
The disparity this year will
form the basis of what
observers predict will be
turbulent debate in Congress
over who is right.
The lawmakers will be
seeking answers to such ques
tions as how much of a threat
Russia and Red China really
are to the nation’s security?
What will it take to settle the
Vietnam war? How important is
the Soviet naval thrust in the
Mediterranean? What is needed
to insure preparedness for
known global commitments as
well as unexpected develop
ments like the present North
Korea crisis? Is the space race
a strategic necessity?
Johnson left the door open to
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ask for more money for the war
in fiscal 1969 in case it turns out
the Joint Chiefs are more
nearly correct.
Johnson’s budget assumes a
maximum commitment of 525,000
American Gls in Vietnam, and
a total war cost from July 1
this year to June 30, 1969, of
$26.3 billion—s 72 million a day.
This is $1.3 billion more than
the $25 billion total now forecast
for fiscal 1968, and 4.4 billion
above the original 1968 budget
of $21.9 billion.